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Submitted to Contest #223
For sixteen years, I have been pursuing the true substance of life. But now, with hardly two years under his belt, that welp has supposedly overtaken me. He, in his pressed robes and combed hair, took to the halls like his mere steps would transmute the stone to gold. Has the boy not learned his history? Has he not taken note of all the parables he was plastered with? It takes an old master to make miracles, and a young fool to undo them all! Does anyone heed these oft-repeated words? The whole faculty has abandoned the teachings of common...
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